Restraining device.



J. LAWRENCE.

RESTRAINING DEVICE.

APPtlCATION FILED AUG-2.19MB.

Patented A11 14, 1917.

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Witnesses JLIWZM Inventor,

Attorneys J. LAWRENCE.

RESTRAINING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED mm. 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 114, i912,

Application filed August 2, 1916. Serial No.-112,88t.

The object of the invention is to provide a relatively inexpensive restraining jacket adapted for usein connection with vlolent, irrational or insane patients to prevent them from injuring themselves or others.

Further objects of the invention will appear as the description proceeds, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing "from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device as seen when applied to a patient.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the apparatus, unattached.

The jacket consists of a front or chest member 10 connected by shoulder members 11 with overlapping back members 12 and 13 provided at the neckportion 14 and at intermediate points with eyelets 15 for engagement by a lacing member 16. The front member 10 is connected to an intermediate point of a waist or belt member 17, and the back members 12 and 13 are also connected with said waist or belt member at intermediate points thereof or set back from the extremities of the same, so that when the back members are in their proper relative positions, at the adjustment adapted to suit the patient, the belt or waist member extensions 18 extend beyond said back members and by means of eyelets 19.

and 20 may be secured through the agency of the above mentioned lace 16, or by a separate lacing if preferred.

Firmly attached terminally to the waist or belt member at the sides thereof are anchor straps 21 and 22 which in common with the jacket may be of any suitable or preferred material having the requisite strength, one of said anchoring straps being provided with a running loop or eye 23 through which the other strap is. extended as shown in Fig. 2.

After the jacket has beensuitably and effectually laced upon the patient, the anchoring straps are wrapped around or otherwise firmly engaged with the side bars or rails of the bedstead, and then the straps are engaged by passing one of them through the loop 23 of the other, thelacing 16 also being passed through said running loop, and the free ends of said inserted strap and lacing are permanently tied to a bed post or other fixed portion of the bedstead as at 24 in 1. a It wi be observed that there areno knots, ties or loose ends within reach of the patient and it is impossible for the latter to leave the bed or to reach the point of attachment of the fastening means at 24, although the patient is free to rise to a sitting positlon.

Moreover, the device described allows the patient free use of his arms and feet, and hence does not subject him to the inconvenience or unnecessary restraint incident to the use of straps, as ordinarily applied, straight jackets and the like.

It will be understood that any suitable material may be employed in the construction of the device, such as leather, linen, ducking, canvas, etc.,\ or any combination thereof and the members of the jacket,

though relatively restricted in area may for purposes ofventilation be perforated without detracting from the efliciency of the apparatus. It will also be observed that by means of the lacing and the plurality of having its ends overlapped at the back, and

being provided at the front with a chest member extended in a single length to a point adjacent the chin of the. wearer, the chest member being bifurcated at its upper end to form a neck-receiving opening, and

to define a pair of back strips disposed in' alinement, one behind the other, the back strips being connected with the ends of the belt in spaced relation to the extremitiesthereof, the back strips on the one hand, andthe' body portion of the belt and the ends of the belt on the other hand, being provided with-eyeletsand a lacing means engaged with the eyelets; 2. In a structure of the class described, a

the acing .cord

body-engaging restraining device compris ing separable parts and a lacing cord attached at one end to one of saidcparts and forming a connection uniting said parts;

end of the other flexible element being extended slidably through the loop to form] noose, the other end of a su ort-en a p g %eing extended slidably through the loop, the outer end of said other flexible element and said other end of the lacing cord being prolonged to a point remote from the restrainingdevice to. form support-engaging tying terminals preventing an expansion of the noose and a loosening of the lacing cord in the restraining device.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as m own, I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' JALIES LAWRENCE; Witnesses:

0. Gr. Swims, J; S. Wrens. 

